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  • John Travolta may live to regret squeezing into the house-dress of Edna Turnblad.

    Rumor Control: Gossip Column D��j�� Vu 2008

  • Still, it starts with Bette walking down the street and seeing a woman walking toward her, “in a house-dress all peckered all over with daisies,” wearing a fried egg on her forehead.

    Burnt Hendrix Auction | clusterflock 2008

  • Round-faced and stout, in her fifties, wearing a flowered house-dress and a white blouse, she glances down at Alices foot, shakes her head, and says, “What happened to you?”

    Alice in Jeopardy Ed McBain 2005

  • Round-faced and stout, in her fifties, wearing a flowered house-dress and a white blouse, she glances down at Alices foot, shakes her head, and says, “What happened to you?”

    Alice in Jeopardy Ed McBain 2005

  • Round-faced and stout, in her fifties, wearing a flowered house-dress and a white blouse, she glances down at Alices foot, shakes her head, and says, “What happened to you?”

    Alice in Jeopardy Ed McBain 2005

  • Round-faced and stout, in her fifties, wearing a flowered house-dress and a white blouse, she glances down at Alices foot, shakes her head, and says, “What happened to you?”

    Alice in Jeopardy Ed McBain 2005

  • Pao-yü, wearing a house-dress and slipshod shoes, was reclining on the bed, a book in hand.

    Hung Lou Meng 2003

  • She wore a yellow print house-dress and white, orthopedic-style sandals, and her purse sat on the bench a slight distance from her, as though it were her companion.

    Never Change Elizabeth Berg 2001

  • She wore a yellow print house-dress and white, orthopedic-style sandals, and her purse sat on the bench a slight distance from her, as though it were her companion.

    Never Change Elizabeth Berg 2001

  • She wore a yellow print house-dress and white, orthopedic-style sandals, and her purse sat on the bench a slight distance from her, as though it were her companion.

    Never Change Elizabeth Berg 2001

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